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Nursing home-acquired pneumonia is similar, although it's contracted in a long-term care facility rather than a hospital. Nursing-home acquired pneumonia is one of top causes of hospital readmissions for residents. If people with pneumonia have recently been exposed to a health-care or nursing-...
The pleural fluid can be either thin and serous or thick and purulent; in the latter case, the term empyema is used (discussed later under Empyema). Microscopic examination of sputum may play an important role in evaluating patients with pneumonia. However, the importance of obtaining a sputum...
The pleural fluid can be either thin and serous or thick and purulent; in the latter case the term empyema is used (discussed later in the Empyema section). Microscopic examination of the sputum may play an important role in the evaluation of patients with pneumonia. However, the importance ...
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The name granuloma is derived from the Latin word granulum, which means grain. The ending -oma is a Greek ending, used to designate a nodular swelling. Therefore granuloma is a nodular, well-circumscribed macroscopic lesion. With the invention of microscopy, this term has been extended to smal...
Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES). This project investigated the social determinants of health among non-institutionalized and functionally independent people aged 65 years or older, who did not receive benefits from public long-term care insurance (LTCI) between September 2016 and January ...
PA103-amyloid in the cerebral ventricle impairs long-term potentiation. Long term potentiation was recorded from evoked field potentials in the hippocampus. (A) Plot shows normalized fEPSP slopes, recorded from the hippocampi of ΔPcrV- or PA103-amyloid treated mice, with 10 min baseline, foll...
•Currentlypneumoniasaredefinedaseithercommunityacquired(CAP)ornosocomialorhospital-acquired.•CAPisdefinedasaninfectionacquiredinthecommunitysetting;thedefinitionvariesanditmayormaynotincludeinfectionsacquiredinanursinghomeorlong-termcarefacility Aetiologicalagents •Theexactincidencevariesbutinameta-analysisof122cases...